47 Decisions So Bad, They Ruined People’s Lives

A friend of mine was in college and had a great life until he decided to drive extremely drunk and got into a horrible accident. He ended up with many broken bones and a very expensive DUI case. He got expelled from college. He couldn't find a job for years after that.

Henry Ruggs III. He was driving pretty dang fast when he k**led that woman and her dog on his drink driving thrill ride. Knowing the NFL, he’ll still have a job once he gets out of prison. After all, “if Hannibal Lecter ran a 4.3, we’d probably diagnose it as an eating disorder.”

The cop who shot the kid tamir rice 11 years ago now is one of the few police who hasn’t been able to escape their past as a shooter. He got fired as an officer after the shooting, and he’s continually tried to apply to new police stations and as a security guard to various places, his past keeps catching up with him, and people keep contacting his new work places, to keep him off the force, and to this day he has not been able to return as a cop

plenty of good answers I see already, one I think of is Otto Warmbier. While I doubt we'll ever know for sure what exactly happened, he made some small choice, whether innocent or foolish, that ruined and subsequently ended his life. I remember at the time of the incident he had the persona of a privileged twat who thought touring north korea would be a fun gag, and quickly FAFO'ed. Now its North Korea so how much of it was manufactured? IIRC the incident was that he tampered with a poster or something. that we'll never know, but one could argue just being an American traveling to North Korea in the first place as a 'tourist' is asking for it.

An old friend of mine and his wife were having trouble getting pregnant. She kept having miscarriages, and the last one they had to remove a fallopian tube. She was understandably distraught by this and fled to Colombia. Totally mia for a few weeks. In that time this old buddy knocked up his neighbor. When his wife came home he said "see I'm not the problem". Oof

Edit: to be clear they removed a fallopian tube from her.

Kind of an old story, but Jimmy the Greek who used to be on the NFL pregame shows. Was at a dinner, had a few too many and, on camera, started talking about slave owners breeding “big blacks” with “big black women” to make “big, strong, blacks”. I’m paraphrasing, but it was career over pretty much overnight.

My favorite 'guy who failed the fastest' is this guy I met in El Monte, CA, arrived to CSULA from Brazil on scholarship for engineering, saved up working under the table to buy a mustang, drove it fast around the industrial zone we worked in, faster and faster each lap, went over the curb, over the grass, car ended up on top of utility box, while I was working at Starbucks across the street from the landing zone.

Guy wasn't hurt, but he got into all sorts of trouble, lost his scholarship, visa, chance at US education and deported.

That girl who stuck her head out of a roof window on riding bus during a school trip and head butted a tunnel entrance.

The Hawk Tu A girl ruined her brand with a crypto scam

Azealia Banks. Released a song that was played on near repeat in every club in 2012. Talk about how big she would become.

Went absolutely insane in interviews and social media and destroyed like 95% of her following and blacklisted from mainstream radios so never got much real coverage again.

Velveteen Dream. Was literally IT in NXT. Future superstar, future WrestleMania headliner was what everyone talked about. Came out he was texting minors. Threw it all away.

Aaron Hernandez went from NFL star with a $40 million contract to convicted murderer serving life in prison in about 3 years. Then k**led himself. Absolutely spectacular self-destruction.

A patient I help treat sometimes. 5yo left unattended for a few minutes, proceeded to drink from a bleach bottle. Caustic burns destroyed their airway and oesophagus but managed to survive because of tracheostomies and feeding tubes. Parents penalised and the child placed into care. Child needs routine surgeries to fix the damage caused by the caustic burns, and because of their age all fixes are temporary because they're constantly growing.

Like Michael Carroll from the UK-at nineteen he won almost ten million pounds in the lottery,spent a few years on cars,parties and gambling and ended up broke and back to manual work.

Howard Dean. Was well on his way to becoming the democratic nominee for president in 2004. He had a ton of momentum, polling looked great, the nomination was his for the taking. Then he gets on stage at a rally and in a fit of excitement lets out a awkward scream and overnight his campaign fell apart. It was one of the earliest “viral” clips on the internet. Late night hosts mocked it. Chapelle show spoofed it. He never came back from it. Poor dude.

The singer Grimes. Completely destroyed and flatlined her decades-long music career and any prestige she had for a rich scumbag who cheated on her constantly and got other women pregnant while she defended him publicly 😂 Humiliation ritual fr.

Thug in Limerick Ireland, showing off in front of young lad with a glock, blew his brains out because the gun was loaded and had one up the spout.

my friends who dont know how to save money. 3 kids, 4th on the way, fought his girl. now him and orher friend living in a garage sleeping on separate cots. they both just financed $20k buggy and $47k buggy off roading. they are paying $1200 total. Both trump supporters because he will fix the economy. while they both sleep in an apartment detached garage with rats 💀

probably me,
went on a strict vegan diet in my teens and stayed on it for 20years, had resulting chronic fatigue for 10 years could barely walk 1 minute before needing 10min rest.

slept 12-14hrs per day.
then it slowly improved a tad however i was still greatly nutritionally deficient by living maunly on just a little fruit for so long.

took me having life threatening issues before i finally tested meat again and then it went away.

however by that time already in 30s having wasted 2 decades.. am still far from recovered and battle ptsd anxiety attacks fatigue neurological and brain issues that made it impossible to work hence became homeless (this will be my 7th winter)

although i had to resist the overwhelming urge to unalive 1000s of times am still here with little hope but it is what it is. life isnt always roses, grace and angel dust however it sure grants us great lessons that hopefully others can learn from to enjoy a fuller life 🌼

Len Bias. A top 2 pick who was supposed to carry the Boston Celtics from one era to another but then just 2 days after he was drafted he OD'd on c*****e and died